Jean Arp

French | 1887 - 1966

Jean Arp was a French Impressionist & Modern artist who was born in 1887. Their work is currently being shown at multiple venues like Staatsgalerie Stuttgart. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Museum Ludwig, Cologne have featured Jean Arp's work in the past.Jean Arp's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 45 USD to 5,825,000 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 1998 the record price for this artist at auction is 5,825,000 USD for Déméter, sold at Christie's New York in 2018. Jean Arp has been featured in articles for Studio International, e-flux and The National. The most recent article is When Paris Was the Center of New York’s Art World written for Hyperallergic in April 2024. The artist died in 1966.

Artist's alternative names: Hans Arp, Hans Jean Arp

TORSE DES PYRÉNÉES, 1962

Bronze

Height: 40 1/2 in. 102.8 cm

Balcon I, 1925

oil on cut-out board in the artist's painted frame

Board: 29 1/4 x 41 1/4 in. (74.5 x 105 cm.), With the artist's frame: 32 1/4 x 44 1/4 in. (82 x 112.5 cm.)

PTOLÉMÉE II, Conceived 1958, cast 1961

Bronze

Height: 39 3/4 in

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At Auction

Upcoming Lots

Gris-Noir (Gray and Black), 1966

By Jean Arp

Venduehuis der Notarissen

Composition dans un cercle n°6

By Jean Arp

Sotheby's Paris

Offsetlithogr

By Jean Arp

Peege Auction House

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Recent Auction Results

CONSTELLATIONS 1957

By Jean Arp

Ro Gallery

TWENTY-FIVE POEMS. Ten woodcuts

By Jean Arp

-11%

below mid-estimate

Binoche & Giquello

Soleil Recerclé Etui (From: Soleil Recerclé. Poèmes

By Jean Arp

+48%

above mid-estimate

Van Ham Fine Art Auctions

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Current Exhibitions

Jean (Hans) Arp: Plasters And Bronzes

Nasher Sculpture Center

Dallas | Texas | USA

Jan 10,2024 - Apr 21,2024

Mannheim Miami: The Left-Over-Collection: Part Two

Galerie Crone, Vienna

Vienna | Austria

Mar 28,2024 - May 03,2024

Sculpture from Louisiana's Collection

Louisiana Museum of Modern Art

Humlebæk | Denmark

Dec 19,2023 - May 19,2024

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Articles

When Paris Was the Center of New York’s Art World

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Coverage

“ ..Arp’s sculptures, begun in the early 1930s, often have no use for a pedestal, can be turned in different orientations, and seem to pulse with incipient life... ”
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Nasher Sculpture Center

“ ..Arp described its biomorphic shapes as primal forms inspired by nature, a connection made clear in the title of the work, which evokes a grouping of stars in the night sky... ”
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Harvard Art Museums

“ ..Constellations II inaugurated a new chapter in Arp’s postwar practice... ”
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Harvard Art Museums

“ ..Arp’s experimental approach to creation, radical rethinking of traditional art forms, and collaborative proclivities resonate with the wide-ranging character of art today... ”
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Peggy Guggenheim Collection

“ ..Focusing his attention on everyday objects, in the 1920s Arp created his very own ‘object language’ using a nonsensical vocabulary of simple, reduced forms of bottles, forks, knives, clocks, ties, moustaches,... ”
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Hauser & Wirth, Hong Kong